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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
is perfor-mance-based and guarantees the reimbursement of our expenditures and cost of capital as long as these are prudent and efficient. The model requires us to accelerate and even advance our capital...
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- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
Vallée explains. To that end, he and Célérier set out to quantify talent. To do so, they capitalized on data from French engineering schools. Measuring Talent In France, students are selected for engineering programs based solely on their...
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- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
global capitalism are also shown to have been complex. The book demonstrates the unique ability of capitalism to create wealth for societies through innovation, yet also cautions that the history of global...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
in all cases that we consider, the welfare gains of using optimal capital taxes are small. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w16619 A Behavioral Model of Demandable Deposits and Its Implications for Financial View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
“It’s one of the many different actions in a larger menu of potential solutions, that would include investor engagement with corporate management and more powerful political interventions such as regulation and taxation,” Serafeim says....
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- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
Private Politics research, heavily regulated firms dominate Public Politics studies, and theoretical studies dominate research on Integrated Political Strategy. With this AiSM volume we seek theoretical and/or empirical articles that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
that capital controls are, in general, a disgrace because they limit people’s freedom. But if you asked me are they effective, I have to report that in many circumstances, they have allowed governments to achieve their goals. VP: It’s...
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April White
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
closed down flows of trade and capital across borders. Yet firms were rarely able to wholly dictate events. Their ability to transfer technology was constrained by the institutional, educational, and cultural conditions of host economies....
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- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
such investments have already begun to percolate. Are these concerns warranted? If history is any guide, foreign investors in the United States have more to worry about than domestic regulators do. The singular fact about foreign direct...
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by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Capitalism Constrained: Public Policy and the Manager, examines the role of the state in five economic sectors: energy, communications, transportation, health, and the environment. "Deregulation, with roots in the U.S. political economy...
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- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
recent regulations imposed on the industry. But given the amorphous nature of some of the trends you document, do you think these will be effective? Mark Bradshaw: The entire function of the sell-side analyst is now up in the air, so a...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
that maximizing profits is wrong, or that self-interest is morally repugnant. But things got out of hand. Consider, for example, the case of Wriston, who was really the father of financialization. As a top executive and later head of Citibank, he had been circumventing...
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- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
focusing on trust and reputation mechanisms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51606 Harvard Business School Case 916-033 Advika Consulting Services: Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Human View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911033-PDF-ENG Sidoti & Company: Launching a Micro-Cap Product Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 411-072 It is 2010 and Sidoti & Company, a New York-based brokerage firm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
Crypto-currency expert Santiago Subotovsky (MBA 2009), principal at Emergence Capital Partners, fields alumni questions on Bitcoin—a digital, virtual, and unregulated currency that allows for anonymous transactions and has quickly moved...
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- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
Countries, like companies, need development strategies to succeed in a world of growing globalization. Professor Richard H. K. Vietor is an expert on business regulation and the international political economy. Vietor has taught at...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the world’s largest democracy. Planes...
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Julia Hanna
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
the middle class in the past with Uber’s small middle class core corps of engineers and large “army of owner drivers treated and priced out like commodities.” Others concentrated on ways of achieving a return to the middle class of the 1950s. David Wittenberg made the...
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by James Heskett
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
unlock capital to small businesses at a time when most banks had stopped lending to small businesses altogether. In fact, SBA’s guarantee brought many banks back to small business lending, helping resuscitate this critical sector of our...
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by Karen Mills
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
more than three-dozen breakout sessions served to sharpen participants’ focus on the summit’s agenda: profound and fundamental questions regarding leadership, globalization, and market capitalism. The future of market capitalism was very...
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